Centers at Penn

Centers Directed or Otherwise Headed by PSC/PARC Researchers

Alzheimer’s Disease Core Center (ADCC)

Trojanowski is the Director. Karlawish is Co-Associate Director.

Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research

Mitchell is the Director and serves on the Advisory Board.

Center for Autism Research

Mandell is the Associate Director.

Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR)

Aiken is the Director. McHugh is Associate Director. Lasater and Smith are Associated Faculty and Senior Fellows. Aiken, Allison, Behrman, and McHugh are also Senior Fellows.

Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI CHIBE)

Volpp is Director. Buttenheim and Thirumurthy are Associate Directors. Halpern is on the Steering Committee. Lavizzo-Mourey, Pauly, and Werner are members of the Internal Advisory Board. Alpert, Centola, Duckworth, Karlawish, Schofield, Thirumurthy, and Venkataramani are Affiliated Faculty.

Center for Mental Health (CMH) 

Mandell is the Director. Candon along with Mandell are Faculty at the center.

Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research (CNDR)

Trojanowski is Co-Director. Karlawish leads clinical research in Alzheimer's disease.

Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy

Volpp is Chief of the Division of Health Policy. Coe, Lavizzo-Mourey, Schofield, Thirumurthy, and Venkataramani are Primary Faculty. Buttenheim, David, Halpern, Karlawish, Pauly, and Werner are Affiliated Faculty

Institute on Aging (IOA)

Trojanowski is Director. Cacchione, Ersek, Karlawish, and Werner are members of the Internal Advisory Board. Burke, Cacchione, Coe, Elo, Ersek, Ewbank, Halpern, Jacobs, Kable, Karlawish, Kohler H-P, Kohler I, McHugh, Preston, Trojanowski, Volpp, and Werner are IOA Fellows.

The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI)

Werner is the Executive Director. Buttenheim and Groeneveld are LDI Faculty Directors. Senior Fellows include: Aiken, Atal, Burke, Buttenheim, Cacchione, Candon, Centola, Chao, Coe, Culhane D, David, Ersek, Fang, Groeneveld, Gupta, Halpern, Jacobs, Karlawish, Kohler H-P, Kohler I, Lasater, Lavizzo-Mourey, MacDonald, Mandell, McHugh, Mitchell, Pauly, Rosenbuam, Schofield, Thirumurthy, Venkataramani, Volpp, and Werner. Hodgson is an Associate Fellow.

The Lauder Institute

Lynch is Co-Director.

Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center

Halpern is Director and Core Faculty. Coe, Ersek, Hodgson, Hubbard, Neuman, Volpp, and Werner are Affiliated Faculty.

Penn Institute for Economic Research (PIER)

Ríos-Rull is the Director.

Penn Memory Center

Karlawish is the Director. Hoffman, Kable, and Trojanowski are Affiliated Researchers.

Pension Research Council (PRC)

Mitchell is the Director and serves on the Advisory Board.

Policy and Economics of Disability, Aging, and Long Term Care (PEDAL) Lab

Coe is Director.

Population Aging Research Center (PARC)

Coe and Kohler H-P are Co-Directors of PARC. Elo is Associate Director of PARC. Aiken, Allison, Alpert, Atal, Behrman, Boen, Brown, Burke, Cacchione, Candon, Coe, David, Elo, Ersek, Fang, Gonalons-Pons, Groeneveld, Guillot, Gupta, Halpern, Hodgson, Hoffman, Hoke, Hubbard, Kable, Karlawish, Kohler H-P, Kohler I, Lasater, Lavizzo-Mourey, Lynch, McHugh, Mitchell, Neuman, Park, Parrado, Pauly, Perez, Preston, Rosenbaum, Schofield, Schurr, Smith, Thirumurthy, Tishkoff, Trojanowski, Venkataramani, Volpp, and Werner are Research Associates.

Prevention Research Center

Volpp is a Director. Buttenheim is Evaluation Core Co-Lead. Karlawish is in Cognitive Aging and Brain Health.

Wharton People Analytics

Duckworth is Co-Director.

Researcher's Affiliations with Other Centers at Penn

Abramson Cancer Center

Volpp is a Cancer Control Program member.

Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Flippen, Gonalons-Pons, Hannum, Hoke, Jacobs, Lareau, Lynch, Roberts are Affiliated Faculty.

Annenberg Public Policy Center

Duckworth is a Distinguished Research Fellow.

Center for Africana Studies

Baker, Duckworth, Kohler H-P, Roberts, Schurr, Tishkoff, Wolf, and Zuberi are Affiliated Faculty.

Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)

Aiken, Behrman, Centola, Chao, Culhane D, Elo, Kohler H-P, Kohler I, Parrado, Pauly, Tishkoff, and Zuberi are members.

Center for Ancient Studies

Schurr is an Associated Scholar.

Center for Brain Injury and Repair

Trojanowski is a Research Team member.

Center for Cognitive Neuroscience

Kable is Core Faculty. Karlawish is Affiliated Faculty

Center for East Asian Studies

Fang, Hannum, Park, Schurr, and Smith are Faculty.

Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Halpern is a Senior Scholar. Neuman is an Associate Scholar.

Center for Functional Neuroimaging

Kable is a CfN member.

Center for Neuroscience & Society

Kable and Karlawish are Faculty.

Center for Pharmacoepidemiology Research and Training (CPeRT)

Hubbard, Mandell, and Neuman are Investigators. Candon is an Investigator-in-Training.

Center for Public Health Initiatives

Buttenheim, Culhane D, Karlawish, Mandell, and Thirumurthy are Senior Fellows.

Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Immigration

Boen, Flippen, Parrado, and Roth are Affiliates.

Center for Therapeutic Effectiveness Research

Volpp is an Advisory Board member. Neuman is Core Faculty.

The Field Center for Children's Policy, Practice & Research

Roberts is a Faculty Affiliate.

Institute for Biomedical Informatics

Hubbard and Tishkoff are Senior Fellows.

Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism

Tishkoff is a member.

Institute for Law and Economics

Postlewaite is Associate Faculty.

Institute for Medicine and Engineering

Trojanowski is a member.

Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics (ITMAT)

Buttenheim, Cacchione, Duckworth, Ersek, Halpern,Hodgson, Kable, Karlawish, Mandell, Neuman, Schofield, Tishkoff, and Venkataramani are Faculty.

Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences

Kable and Trojanowski are Faculty.

Middle East Center

Guillot is Affiliated Faculty.

Ortner Center on Family Violence

Berk is a Faculty Fellow.

Penn Institute for Urban Research

Behrman, Cohen, Culhane D, MacDonald, Madden, Manovskii, and McHugh are Faculty Fellows. Culhane D and MacDonald are also on the Executive Committee.

Penn Neurodegeneration Genomics Center

Trojanowski is Affiliated Faculty.

Positive Psychology Center

Duckworth is Faculty.

The Wharton Financial Institutions Center (WFIC)

Fernandez-Villaverde, Jacobs, Mitchell, Pauly, and Rosenbaum, are all Fellows.